Date:         Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:27:42 -0700
Reply-To:     Nick Paszty <npaszty@ORGANIC.COM>
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From:         Nick Paszty <npaszty@ORGANIC.COM>
Subject:      Reading from a pipe UNIX and NT
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Hello.

I would like to read data from a file without completely opening it.  I
have some very large gz files that are zipped simple text files.  I would
like to unzip them into a pipe and read the data from the pipe into
SAS.  This is being done using a Perl process as the analysis tool but I
would like to replace Perl with SAS.  The other problem is that I'm on PC
SAS.  I would rather not open the file completely which could turn into an
800 MB file and then read that file in.  Can SAS create a program data
vector without knowing what all records look like?  Is this at all
possible?  Sure would be a nice space saver!

Thanks,

Nick